Πέμπτη, 6 Φεβρουαρίου 2014

Cretive Zen V - a review for a bad purhcase

A very bad order for a gadget that never worked!

As you many know me i use a Creative Zen nano Plus mp3 as audio encoder. Several weeks ago I did a tidy up on my house for settling part of my gadgets (notice that they are too many ! ) and put my Zen in a place.Suddenly wishing to use it again for recording a radio signal , I forgot where I put it.
I was terribly upset . For more than than 2 hours for searching but still didn’t find anything .
This made me fell that I lost it . and under some bad feeling I did a googled into Internet for looking a cheap solution . Finally I found a model very close to it namely Creative Zen V but did n't check that the model does not use standard AAA batteries as mine ….
And finally I bought it . The cost of the player is ca $40 plus $20 (too much ) for shipping from somewhere I cold nt identify.

AS always I check the exact date when I received the model . It was 11 days after the purchase and the seller was from USA (notifying the full amount in the mini parcel ie 45 + 25 ) To my impression I saw that there was not any problem with clearance ie duties etc ! (so that seems such of low cost amounts pass without any duties)

Two days after , I found my Zen Nano Plus inside a locker and surely was very happy with it .

The new mp3 player /recorder has been received in a very dense packing . Its case was inside a standard UPS box which was inside a foam based A4 envelope !

The case unfolds from the middle showing two paper wings too

Inside it there is a bundle of many l leaflets Cd and the player which is inside a plastic case too many documents and a niec bag for traveling

I had to use a scissors in order to remove the player and its accessories

And here is a photo with the player and the accessories namely : a USB cable , a holder , earphones and adaptor cable . Upps ! I now have a new adaptor cable for making my recordings , yuppie !

As you many see the player is quite think and surely out fashioned. Several reviews sown that the model was produced on 2006 And just 1 GB ! But I was not so much interested for its size as it could be only used for recoding from external sources rather than as a standard player [though audio quality is the best as read somewhere ]And neither was annoyed that the model could record only WMA on160 kb (thus of better fidelity than a standard 96- 128-160 kb MP3 as my zen records ...) Thi is wring as after reading the users guide , you can always change the recording bitrate

And here is a description of the remain documents:
1. a mini leaflet for not listening very loud (care for your ears )
2. a fill your zen pamphlet - adverts for relative material
3. a leaf in more tan 20 languages on how to unlock the audio
4. a leaf for charging via USB
5. service extension
6. an instructions guide
7 acessories for zen that include: colored earphones , leather pouch , speakers, silicon skin , armband , bloototh heads , tune cast ii transmitter, car charger and several other
8. As per users guide the Zen requires the drivers and softwar in ordeer to be comnnected toa computer (nor Xr neither 7 can recognize it ....)

Here is a photo of the player itself

There are button for playback pause , arrow buttons , enter button as well as two others

Here is the RECbutton as well the volume button . These are in the right side of the player

And here is the left side of the player. On /off /lock functions and the reset button

And here is the upper side . from the left to the right are : USB socket , heads (the standard 1/8" SOCKET ) , line in (very thin plug ) and mic

I immediately tried to check for connectivity … Using this USB cable which is rather short from the front USB socket on the bottom of the computer to computer’s top I found that the player only was blinking …. Huh what s happening? The computer did t recognize it still….I thought that if I first have to charge it and then try to look what s happening

To my astonishment in the house 2 hours later , on the start it behaved the same : the buttons of the player were blinking for several times . And after some time it shown to start showing the logo , just entering into menu and immediately showing a message of low battery ....

Anyway the player was a very bad selection on a bad time and a bad mood. This is gthe only exception of the set system The cable line in adaptor is OK for the use of my older Zen model as spare material

The earphones are not so good comparing to other ears i use . They are very bassy (bass seems pitched up) with lower trebles than other models . AS for example the AKG 908 offer more more normalized frequency response

I feel very pity to spend a rather much money (abt 55 Euros ?) for this gadget that does not work so far . ONw idea is to send it back?

Later two weeks after; with little search in ebay i fond and bought a battery from UK for replacement and awaiting the response of the seller